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Lynching is illegally executing an accused person by a mob. Lynching was usually done by white people to kill African American slaves, but whites against this were also in danger of getting lynched. The number of lynchings increased dramatically after the Ku Klux Klan developed in 1867. The main goal of the KKK's were to maintain white population in the South.
 * Lynching?**

George Henry White who was the only African American in the House of Representatives, proposed a bill that made lynching a federal crime. He said that lynching was used by white mobs to terrorize all of the African Americans living in the South. No matter what he said, everyone ignored it and his bill was eventually defeated. The NAACP also held meetings and conferences to show that they are not intimidated.
 * What was done to stop it?**

According to a report by Dr. Arthur Raper 3,724 people were lynched between 1889 and 1930 and 4/5 of them were negroes.
 * How many were killed?**

//Miri L.// The term "Lynching came from Charles Lynch. Charles Lych was known for his Lynchings of the British during the Revolutionary War. Charles Lynch and his neighbors took the law into their own hands and lynched people on their own property. Not many people got into trouble with the law for lynchings because these Lynchings commonly occured in areas where the government was not particularly strong. Law officers in this area were not able to keep society in order, or there were not enough of them to enforce laws.
 * Why do they call it "Lynching"?**
 * Why didn't many people get into trouble with the law for Lynchings?**

After the Ku Klux Klan formed, the number of Lynchings increased. The Ku Klux Klan lynched African Americans so they could maintain white supremacy in the south. Between 1880 and 1920 in the UNited States, the average was two African Americans a week being lynched. //Melissa L.//
 * What part did the Ku Klux plan play in Lynchings?**